Nikolas Guggenberger
@nikenberger.bsky.social
Asst Prof, University of Houston Law Center
Property is broken, online. Time to redefine entitlements in networks. New article: "The Platform-Property Paradox," 29 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 286. 🧵
"Employers" do not "add" jobs. Jobs are employment contracts entered into between employers and employees. Employment is not a benevolent gift bestowed on society by employers. Framing matters.
New publication on the practical challenges of implementing the Right to be Forgotten with Chen Sun & Supreeth Shastri!
For decades, the US called Europe's data restrictions thinly veiled protectionism. Then Washington passed sweeping data export bans. My piece in @lawfaremedia.org: regulatory actions reveal more about a country's self-assessment than any speech. Here, weakness.
The United States new push to restrict its data exports suggests the administration feels a diminished control over online platforms and infrastructure and a lack of confidence in technological dominance, writes @nikenberger.bsky.social.
America Used to Own the Internet. Now It’s Running Scared.
The U.S. restricted data transfers abroad. Cast as an assertion of sovereignty, the new posture signals weakness in great-power competition.
lawfaremedia.org
Regulating Manipulative Design is Not Preempted by CDA 230 or the First Amendment ssrn.com/abstract=558... another round of edits/updates ... publication in May 2026
Regulating Manipulative Design is Not Preempted by CDA 230 or the First Amendment
For two decades, there has been a heated debate among legal scholars, activists, judges, and others about the scope of CDA 230. A persistent theme has been hype
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Spoke with @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social about the California social media addiction case. Listen in here: www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/sho...
Hello Houston (February 24, 2026) | Houston Public Media
Today: We discuss a landmark social media addiction trial, talk with New York Times best-selling author Meg Medina, explore how influencers are driving the Texas Democratic Senate race, and more.
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📣 Restricting Data Flows Is a Sign of Weakness The seismic shift in US data trade policy may appear as a muscular regulatory flex domestically and a display of national strength internationally. However, the opposite is true. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Some data protection absurdities from Bavaria: the DPA lectures a citizen who photographs illegally parked cars on bike paths, insisting he use “secure IT systems” and inform the offenders, including giving them a right to object to the data processing. www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/elt...
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Spoke with @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social about the Warner Bros./Netflix merger and why FTC/DoJ should block it. Thanks for having me; it was fun! www.youtube.com/live/4AXFM-C...
Hello Houston Full Episode - December 18, 2025
YouTube video by Houston Public Media
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Amazing opportunity at ISP!
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School@yaleisp.bsky.social · 12mo ago📢 Apply now for the 2026–27 ISP Resident Fellowship at Yale Law School! We encourage projects on AI and the digital public sphere—free speech, content moderation, privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic governance. More info: law.yale.edu/isp/join-us#...
Join us for the Law and Technology Workshop, 10/3, noon ET, featuring Nick Nugent law-technology-workshop.beehiiv.com/p/law-and-te...
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This week’s Law & Tech Talk examined “The Platform-Property Paradox.” Thank you to @nikenberger.bsky.social for a magnificent presentation!
Excited about this!
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School@yaleisp.bsky.social · 12mo agoJoin us tomorrow for Prof. @nikenberger.bsky.social's (University of Houston Law School) talk: "The Platform-Property Paradox" Tue., Sept 16 - 12:10-1:30PM - SLB 128 Cosponsored by Yale Journal of Law & Technology DM for Zoom details
Contributed to reporting on smart glasses by @fullofwords.bsky.social: www.eweek.com/news/halo-x-...
These AI Smart Glasses Are Always Recording: Risks & Benefits
Halo X glasses don’t have a camera and don’t indicate when they’re recording audio. We talk to experts about the possible legal and security risks users need to know.
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Contributed to reporting by @nilsdampz.bsky.social on the United States v. Google ruling. After finding last year that Google maintained an illegal monopoly, the court handed down only lukewarm remedies — a gift to Big Tech that does little to curb monopoly power.
US-Gericht - Google wird nicht zerschlagen
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The Court just gifted Google and Apple around 335B, relative to market expectations, in United States v. Google.
It's hard to restore competition in a market that has already been crushed -- and I suspect the judge's cautious ruling requiring the very least from Google is not going to give competitors enough of a reason to jump back in to create search products. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly
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After 5 long years, a federal court found that Google had an unlawful monopoly and then did little to address it. Here’s DuckDuckGo’s statement from the other site:
This is bad. Very bad. So, even where courts find illegal monopolization, the remedies are weak. Just ask, if you were Google, would you do it all again?
The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.Google and Apple’s $20 billion search deal survives
Join an amazing group of scholars at UH incl. @chrismirasola.bsky.social @leahfowler.bsky.social @nikenberger.bsky.social @petersalib.bsky.social @lauraportuondo.bsky.social @jessiebregant.bsky.social @amangebru.bsky.social @dfroomkin.bsky.social and more with better things to do than Bluesky!
Nikolas Guggenberger @nikenberger.bsky.social · last yr.📢 We are hiring! Come join us at the University of Houston. - 3 entry-level tenure-track faculty members in crim; employment and labor law; and torts; - a clinical assistant/associate professor to teach lawyering skills and strategies; - a full/associate professor in health law. Qs? Reach out!
📢 We are hiring! Come join us at the University of Houston. - 3 entry-level tenure-track faculty members in crim; employment and labor law; and torts; - a clinical assistant/associate professor to teach lawyering skills and strategies; - a full/associate professor in health law. Qs? Reach out!
First want to thank folks for a truly overwhelming and warm welcome back to social media. My aim is to provide useful info on areas of law I know well, so I very much hope I can return to academic seclusion soon.